About Women For Greater
Philadelphia

Women for Greater Philadelphia, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) (3)
corporation of volunteers.The goals of the corporation are to promote
and enhance the historical, philosophical, educational and cultural
value of Greater Philadelphia and to maintain and preserve Laurel Hill
Mansion.

Women for Greater Philadelphia, an organization of volunteers, was
incorporated in 1973 under the name “Women for the Bicentennial” as a
non-profit service organization. Its purpose at that time was to
cooperate with the city in celebrating the nation’s 200th anniversary in
1976. The first project was the renovation and restoration of the
handsome, but neglected, Laurel Hill Mansion under an agreement with the
Fairmount Park commission. The mansion, which dates to 1767, has been
welcoming the public ever since its opening in 1976. At the close of
that year, the name was changed to Women for Greater Philadelphia. The
goal of Women for Greater Philadelphia is to create an intergenerational
education program that teaches people about Philadelphia’s rich history
through preserving Laurel Hill Mansion and, simultaneously, preserving
the cultural image of the Greater Philadelphia area.